The 5 WORST TOOLTIPS in Baldur's Gate 3 - And What They Actually Do 

Thank you for diving into Fog Cloud vs Darkness a little bit. Basically there is a complex interaction between these two spells, various Darkvisions, and the Hide mechanic. I would love to see an even more granular breakdown. This is an area of the game that I continue to be confused with lol. There is a ton of misinformation online based on older patches and assumed mechanics and DND editions. So if I understand, - both Fog Cloud and Darkness create a zone which is completely *unlit* and Blinds creatures within. -this means only creatures with Darkvision can see into these zones, provided they are within range of their type of Darkvision (normal vs Superior) - Hiding in these zones against enemies without Darkvision does not trigger Stealth checks, because the enemies vision cones do not penetrate the zone and so act as though they are facing away from you - Attacking non-DV enemies from these zones gives you the "Attacking from shadows" buff which gives Advantage on attack rolls - Attacking DV enemies from these zones while outside their Darkvision radius gives "Attacking from shadows" - Even though Darkness is Magical, enemies with regular Darkvision will force you to make stealth checks if you are within their Darkvision range (??? seriously ???) - Darkness blocks *Line of Sight*, meaning enemies cannot shoot into or out of it (unless they have Devil's Sight). - Fog Cloud does *not* block Line of Sight; you can shoot into it and out of it (but Devil's Sight *does not work* with Fog Cloud when *INSIDE* it; you will be Blinded) The best shorthand I've seen for how to use these spells is that Fog Cloud is best used offensively against enemies by casting it on them, as an AOE Blind. Darkness is best used defensively by Devil's Sight Warlocks, who receive no debuffs from it but get Attack from Shadows.

The tooltip in dialogue for Detect Thoughts shows the effect of your Wisdom Modifier... it uses Intelligence.

God the darkness thing irritates me so much. WHY CAN ENEMIES SEE THROUGH THE DARKNESS SPELL WITH REGULAR DARKVISION??? THAT DEFEATS THE WHOLE POINT!!!

I think it's fitting that confusion is one of the most confusing spells in the game

The improved Mage Hand on Arcane Trickster says it can loot and pick locks. It can't.

Yeah, the tooltips that refer to “creatures” when they mean “enemies and neutral parties” have been my personal enemy ever since I started playing the game.

Shoutout for Arcane Charge tooltip. It says that the user needs to be threatened but its actually the enemy that needs to be threatened for it to work.

The ACTUAL worst tooltip in the game is the accuracy prediction for spells that force saving throws. For example, if a cleric prepares to cast Sacred Flame, the tooltip and hit chance prediction will calculate using Dexterity as the *casting ability*, when the actual casting ability is of course Wisdom. Actually casting the spell will hit normally, as shown in the combat log, but the prediction will always be incorrect. This is consistent for every spell with a saving throw, the prediction will treat the save ability as the casting ability, for the prediction only.

Most spells that say "creatures" I avoided on my first playthough, because I thought they hit everyone. I was mad when I learned some spells with this tooltip actually only hit enemies...

I felt so betrayed when the Staff of Arcane Blessing wasn't working like the tooltip described it.

Confused makes affected creatures roll a d20 flat check (no modifiers) against a static DC of 11 every turn. If they fail that roll, they get the confused stupor, which is pretty much a stun. If they succeed, then the cryptic AiArchetypeOverride(madness,99) effect happens. Source: game files

>when the game lies to you >picture of one of the few people who doesn't lie to you

One advantage of Staff of Arcane Blessing is that the Bless and Mystra's Blessing condition remain even after the staff is unequipped. And the Mystra's Blessing condition does not require concentration, so even if you lose concentration on the Bless you will keep the Mystra's Blessing.

My biggest gripe with a tooltip is the Goading attack one, especially if it’s used against me. I’m pretty sure the goading attack does basically exactly what it does in 5e, which is cause the affected entity to have disadvantage on any attack roll that isn’t the goading attacker. But in Baldur’s gate, it mind controls your party members, making them do the most insane things sometimes when it’s their turn. One time, my goaded Ranger decided on his turn to stop concentrating on Hunter’s Mark, throw an acid vial, and then pull out a circle of death scroll on a single Bhaal cultist. Goading attack is the single most broken ability in the game imo.

It reallt doesn't make sense that any form of Darkvision can pierce through a fog cloud. Darkvision allows you to see in the dark as if it is dimly lit, a fog cloud is just a summon cloud of water particles, that are so dense you can't see through. Same with smoke. Same with any non-transparent object. Darkvision doesn't allow you to see through walls, right? In fact in one of the earlier editions there was a supernatural ability to see through that kind of thing: fog, smoke, etc. Another thing I didn't get is a certain areal spell interactions dispersing the darkness "cloud". Magical darkness is not a gas, not an object, it shouldn't interact with anything other than dispel magic or certain light spells.

It seems to me that the staff and darkness spell are not working as intended as opposed to them having misleading tooltips.

My favorite misleading tooltips are the ones that list a set number without telling you that number is your characters ability modifier. I thought inquistors might from OoV Paladin was a set 3 damage bonus without realizing that 3 was coming from my Paladin's CHA mod.

Hey Ceph! Don't forget your favorite tooltip fail that you mention in almost all of your amazing build guides: Longstrider is a Ritual spell 😁

The one kind of tooltip I absolutely despise is the special effects attached to certain items like Arcane Synergy, Heat... because the item descriptions don't explain what those effects do half the time.

The damage range in the tooltip on any weapon with conditional/elemental extra damage includes that conditional damage. Many seemingly OP weapons aren't as powerful as they look, except against specific enemies.

The darkness thing sounds like a bug tbh. That's why Devil's Sight exists even in this game, doesn't it? For *magical* darkness? Otherwise you can just not blind yourself and get all the benefits and why waste an invocation for it? Darkvision in tabletop only works on normal darkness, and is a reason why Darkness spell is very good to use since Devil's Sight is a rarer ability, and makes taking the invocation an enticing option for certain builds. It should work the same in this game, too, but who knows, maybe they decided to nerf it? Either way the tooltip should be fixed to be more clear.

I believe the staff of arcane blessings had the effect it states in early access, and they didn't change the tooltip. It wouldn't be the only item.

Sometimes when I get a dialogue dice roll, it says "Wisdom" I go for it as a monk, but then I see it uses Intelligence, which my dumped stat so my dialogue is screwed

Produce Flame from the Asmodeus Tiefling uses wisdom instead of charisma. You can imagine how devastated I was to realize my decent damage cantrip wasn’t even worth it for my bard. Especially with the console UI issues with produce flame.

The problem with confusion is that if they did use the d10 rules from 5e, then it ends up being a 40% chance that they still attack you if you're nearby. I think on one of the rat hoard fights in the game like under the tavern you could get a large enough sample size to see if it really is a 20% chance for them to attack the nearest creature. You'd be able to hit every single rat, and they would all fail the saving throw, then just count what they all do. I always thought that it was just a 1/4 for them to act as normal, and a 1/4 for everything else too.

10:20 lol They coded darkvision to let you see through smoke/fog? lol wow

One of the biggest things I learned was to check the actual damage calculations in the dialogue box when testing gear effects. Much better than the inventory tooltip. Gloves of archery with hand crossbows drove me nuts for the longest time trying to figure out if it worked or not😂

Coming into the game from years of playint the tabletop, I basically just avoided all the "target creatures" until an enemy randomly used confusion on my character surrounded by enemies and I saw they weren't affected at all. Great video, I never knew about a couple of those and I discovered even more thanks to the comments.

Something I noticed in the German translation, Saving throws (saves) are translated as Spielstand (save slot as in game save) which always confused me and a couple of my friends

I think another issue is with Lore Bards, I have only ever played D&D twice, many years ago and Baldur's Gate 3 is my first proper look into D&D and D&D type games, I love it and have put 750hrs into it but have never used Lore Bards as Cutting Words never seemed interesting, and that is only because the tooltip on leveling up just says "Use your wit to distract a creature and sap its confidence" which doesn't explain what it actually does in terms of the game and being helpful

Im pretty sure confusion does not work like in the ttrpg. After about two dozen casts, Ive determined that it actually rolls the dice to determine an action, then ignores the dice roll and does whatever is the least useful to you as the player, most often resulting in critical hits on your creatures.

Oh my god for months I didn't understand why counterspell seemed to fail at random.......!

This is why I don't use Confusion despite some folks swearing by it. I don't think it's ever done anything noticeable any time I've used it.

The ideas for videos you come up with are amazing. You're creating content I didn't even know I wanted!

I always wondered why AOE melee attacks seemed to deal such high damage, but just reveled in the damage instead of checking why. Great information!

The heavily obscured and darkness stuff is very confusing, and not at all intuitive. Thanks for explaining it so clearly!

My favorite category of tooltip mistake is modifiers, and there's a wide variety of those everywhere in the game (specially on the level-up screen).

There is literally no "magical darkness" in BG3 at all. Devs simply forget about Devil's Sight "magical darkness" aspect and implemented ONLY normal darkness. When they released that creatures inside a Darkness area shouldn't be able to shot until they have a Devil's Sight, they simply added a Blind effect to the Darkness and also have made Devil's Sight owners simply immune to that Blindness and to "not shot inside" restrictions. If you have a ring that grants Blindness immunity, you still can shot from inside a Darkness area even without Devil's Sight. It means, mage can equip this ring, cast a Darkness on himself and he would be immune to ranged attack from anyone but DS owner. And he would be harder to hit in a melee attack by anyone who have no DV. Truly great protection spell

My favourite is the variation if Misty Step that lists a WIS save for some reason, also some Misty Steps can be Twin Cast for no benefit whatsoever

As a player, one of the things I wish was better explained in tooltips is how different effects that raise ability scores interact. I had a character that by my count, should have had a Wisdom of at least 21 and possibly as much as 23 but instead had 19. Very confusing.

Multiclassing spellcasters is a headache. Last time I checked, the tooltip said that all spells are cast with the modifier of the first class you picked. In the combat log it shows correctly that it uses the modifier of the class that gave you the spell. Also, having the section for all class spells called "Bard" when multiclassing is weird.

The one that confuses me most is that see invisibility doesn’t mean you see invisibility? Every time I have a character with it active, things that were already invisible stay that way to them, and creatures that turn invisible disappear just like they normally would. Really the spell seems to do nothing.

Throwing a weapon does not trigger the on hit effect. I wanted to have a sussur dagger ranged silence and it does not work...

There's a spell (fright i think) that says "can't aproach the source and attack with disavantage". When you hit a enemy whit it, this is pretty much what happens, but when you are hit by it, you lose control of the character. >:|

why doesn't Jaheira have darkvision? the confusion spell is written that way to confuse you, just as it is meant to be

Very interesting! I didn't even read most tooltips that thoroughly... Talking about "Blinded" and "Darkness". The tooltip says that ranged attacks/spells have a reduced range of 10ft/3m, but that's just the circle shown when you're are trying to use such an ability. I was not yet able to execute a ranged spell/attack when "Blinded" within "Darkness". It always says "Path is interrupted!".

This was incredibly well done! I love understanding how things work and this just made things so much easier for me. Thanks a bunch!

Tiger's Bloodlust is also not limited to three targets. There's a dozen build videos of people healing to full with the gnoll mace using that. The hard part is getting more than 3 guys in range at the same time.

Still not sure I understand the difference between Darkness and Fog Cloud. So the differences are that Fog Cloud blinds everyone in it, and also impedes movement, and Darkness only blinds those without magical darkvision, and doesn't impede movement? Or does Darkness also makes it easier for you to stealth, or you count as stealthed when attacking even if you're not?

Aw I was hoping to see the messed up save dc tooltips very briefly touched on here with counterspell. It’s so annoying that spells that target a specific saving throw will show the spell save dc for that particular attribute, which is wrong. Like for instance if I’m running a Sorcerer my spell dc will calculate with CHA but for some reason when I check the save dc for hypnotic pattern it isn’t giving me an accurate save dc because it’ll show what my dc would be if I was using WIS. Whereas banishment will show an accurate save dc because it is targeting CHA saves. This honestly really messed up my perception of what attributes I should be putting points into in a bunch of my runs because I always thought that it’d be beneficial to bump up WIS higher than I would otherwise just to eek out an extra +1 to the save DC. Also I hate confusion. It’s recommended by a lot of people on threads and online as being a top tier control spell and while it’s certainly not bad I think it’s vastly outclassed by hypnotic pattern (specially when casted with careful metamagic) and slow. Both those spells use up a lower level slot and give you useful debuffs and you know what will happen. Confusion honestly feels like the enemies act normally a solid 65% of the time. Hypnotic pattern has always been the best value control spell so comparing it to confusion may not be fair but slow is so underrated in BG3. Slow works on almost everything, has a targeting mechanic up to 6 which ensures you won’t debuff your teammates and has like 6 different debuffs which are very useful when they all effect the same enemies together.

I think I speak for all of us when I say that we would devour videos of you doing an honor mode / challenge run of this game

i'm somewhat confused about the Darkness segment. Did you test it out on other enemies with darkvision aside from Mizora? It doesn't show up in her features so there's no way to tell i guess, but she's a devil so it's perfectly reasonable for her to have Devilsight. At least in DnD, many devils, esp powerful ones, have devilsight that can see through magical darkness as well.

I like how i didnt even notice the counterspell one because i just assumed it was like d&d

Thanks for a very informative explanation! The Staff of Arcane Blessing got me as well, I guess I can take it off my cleric now. As for Confusion, used it once and it felt underwhelming compared to Fear of even upcast Command.

Since this is mostly about the tooltips specifically, how about the fact that when you're picking spells they don't tell you in any way if they're a ritual spell or not. When you gain a level and have a chance to learn a spell it doesn't tell you in any way if a given spell would be a ritual spell or not. This would impact 100% of people who play the game because everyone (anyone who has played until they gained any level with a party member who can cast ritual spells) has looked at those spells and tried to figure out the value of ... longstrider or whatever else and been unaware if that spell counted as a ritual or not. This also extends to when you want to learn a spell from a scroll. The ritual mechanic is pretty important and it's very confusing for new players to identify which spells are ritual spells or not. And, the only thing these spells are missing is the text and icon in MORE of the tooltips that talk about the spell. Because, it has to be in your spellbook before you see that a spell is a ritual or not, and that doesn't help you make an informed decision on which spells to learn.

Honorable mention to sneak attack, stating that if you have advantage you can perform it, but what it really means is if you don't have disadvantage. You can have advantage, and/or you can have a teammate within 1.5m to bypass the advantage requirement, but if you have disadvantage from any source then you can't do it which is only clarified in reference to the 1.5m part of the condition. Which kinda implies that as long as you have more advantage than disadvantage it works but that's not true.

Also, another niche fact about Dread Ambusher from Gloomstalker. If you, by any chance, happen to attack something which doesn't have a health bar (example, you missclick and hit the floor) the attack resets and you can make it again, it isn't wasted

Thanks again for all your hard work. Always look forward to your next video.

aww, that structure was very sweet, how nice of you to wrap on something positive. i learned a lot, thanks!

>Five times the game lies >Gortash in the thumbnail >Game repeatedly describes him as "a handsome young man" Yeah, I was confused when I met him, too.

counterspells being bugged and only using int explains so much I was going crazy a while back trying to figure out why my warlock failed every single counterspell I had to roll for

I was so confused when I read the Destructive Wrath tooltip that I never actually cast it on the only character I've ever had learn it. Especially as they were a Phalar Aluve build so usually weren't too far from all of their allies, I didn't fancy blowing up all my allies 😂

I just started my 2nd playthrough, but this time with my wife. I am playing as a barbarian.. unfortunately i was also fully misled with the tiger heart tooltip... first with how it gives emphasis on junping distance i assumed that the tiger move made you jump towards up to 3 enemies or something, than i read it again and i blamed myself for the wrongful assumption.. but then i saw how it seems to do the same thing as the cleave proficienty but do less dmg somehow so i thought it was because cleave is a short rest while the tiger attack has no limits outside of you needing to be under the rage influence.. either way im glad to know that its actually better than i thought

14:16 : I was wandering what cleric spell you were talking about (because Destructive Wrath is the tempest ability, not a spell) but I guess I finally found it: Destructive Wave

The problem is that in base D&D fog cloud doesn't create unlit area, therefore darkvision doesn't help at all against it - Since Fog basically obscures your vision, but it does not stop light from coming thru. Fog is in real life, not preventing light from going thru, but distorting the light, causing it to become "gray" light. Darkness spell does create unlit area, but you need magical darkvision to see thru it.

A little off topic but that demonstration of dread ambusher makes me want some kind of quest that involves everyone in your party, even as npc's with the builds you've made for them. Final stretch from upper city right up to the brain would be something fun!

Cones definitely have a radius. For confusion, I think it’s doing a saving throw for a confusion die. So if you fail the save, you then roll for the confusion condition, and thus can still roll the two “act normally” numbers on that roll. So you only get the 1 in 5 chance if you fail the initial saving throw, lets for sake of argument describe it as an even 50/50 which would make it what, a 60% chance they act normally or something? Like on 100 rolls, ~50 would be normal thru save, the remaining ~50 would be confusion die rolls so ~10 would be normal due to the 1 in 5, so over both rolls it would appear as 60% (when you were expecting 20% if you assumed it was just a single confusion die roll). So really we just need to know what the saving throw is against to know the exact numbers

When you cast confuse, there's a hidden d1,000,000 roll where if you get anything but a million, you're too confused to understand what the spell does.

Also, a minor thing, you can cast Darkness on top of a Fog Cloud, merging them together, so they fog turns into darkness, and what's stranger, you cancel both spells by ending your concentration, but the person who created the Fog Cloud will continue to concentrate on the spell that has no effect You could probably do the same thing in the opposite order, turning Darkness to Fog and cancelling your opponent's spell and letting them continue concentrating on a useless spell

the counterspell having a wrong tooltip problem is actually so funny to me, cause i knew how the spell worked already from tabletop so i knew that to counterspell a spell higher than level 3 you need to match with your own higher level spell slot (eg. spell 4 needs 4, spell 5 needs 5, ...) so i never read the ingame tooltip, this just went completely under my radar

Will you please make an element monk who throws the ice block.; or just give me a reply 1) Exactly how much strength does it take to lift the ice block? 2) Does barbarian bear ability, make it easier to lift the ice block? 3) are there any potions or gear that make it easier to lift the ice block? 4) Can you electrify or poison the ice block for electric or poisoning? 5) Can you oil/ on the ice block and use fire to blow it up? 6) can it melt/shatter/explode with fire/bludgeoning/grenades? 7) does it leave a water puddle when destroyed; if poisoned, electrified or oiled. Will it leave a corresponding puddle? 8) Does water bottle throwing get the tavern brawler bonus? 9) How many hit points does it have? 10) how many times can you throw the ice block? 11) can you cast spells on ice block? 12) buff it; meaning AOE spells? 13) If you cast a spell on top of it, then throw it will the spell move with the ice block? ?” I hope you see my comment. Please a video or just a response would be appreciated.

I'd include the Sweeping Attack Maneuver. Reading the tooltip I firmly believed this was just a straight up cleave attack, only to see it deal like an overall 5 damage to my secondary target...

I appreciate you ending on praising larian. I always used to say to new players with DOS2 how the game gives you so much information, you can hover over so many effectives, buffs and debuffs to see what they do. Sure some may have fallen through the cracks but overall they have done a great job. Great video dude, keep it up :)

I have used mystras blessing all game, believing it to be absurd for an act 1 item, the heartbreak this video and the game itself has dealt to me is immense. Ive passed up on so many items 😢

Excellent video, thanks! I feel that the technical part of the tooltip text should have been auto-generated from the actual game data that describes the ability/weapon/whatever, so that this kind of thing is impossible. Maybe there is a technical reason why that wasn't possible, but... I can't really see why if this had been an integral part of the game design from the start.

"Turn Undead" does not turn anyone undead. It turns undead creatures. Which is basically just frightened. But good luck knowing that as a newbie.

Man I love your work. Those Guides are extremely accurate and I learn many new things about this game.

Gloomstalker is also the closest you can get to god levels of saves like blackguatds used to have in 3.5. Iron Mind gives you proficiency in int and wisdom, ranger dex and strength. Resilient charisma self explanatory, and then transmuter's stone constitution. Coupled with halfling wearing the fey semblance amulet (gnome cunning basically), and saving throw bonus stacking you get a chsracter that can pass any saving throw repeatedly.

fog cloud and darkness are two spells where you can be seen as if you are out in the open Example The druid grove when you go to steal the idol. You used to be able to use either one and steal the idol not since Patch 6 came out. Your caught every time. Even if you cast the spell and use the sneak attack soon as you touch the statue you are caught. Also found it don't work in other areas either.

the darkness and fog cloud thing made me realize how deadly a smokebomb assassin type character can be if played properly, might do that sometime (even though I'm a heavy armor knight kinda guy)

The +2 piercing damage on tiger's bloodlust is from the bleeding you inflict.

there's also issues with pieces of equipment saying "x lightning charges are added whenever an enemy is hit' not playing nice with magic missiles. you'll get credit for only for like half the missiles.

the "duelling" fighting skill is also misleading, as it implies that the +2 cannot be applied to versatile weapons while it does, as long as you are using it in one hand

So, basically, the only target the confusion works on perfectly, is the player😂 I was so confused with this spell, as I remember precisely how it works in Pathfinder and when Dror Ragzlin failed his save, I was expecting that he will either attack the nearest creature (goblins) or do nothing, but instead, he just walked to hit Astarion. In PF there is also 25% chamce that the creature will act normally though, but BG3 is really poor at telling the player which effect this spell has.

Also I really hate the battle with meerlocks as the characters tell you that you have to use light, but it doesn’t work at all, not to mention how ridiculously unbalanced this battle is.

staff of arcane blessing - does what the tooltip says, you're kind of misreading it. bless only ever gave 1d4 baseline with nothing else. so 5-20% on each spell/ranged/melee attack. It's extremely powerful of an item and very much worth even into the end of the game as a prebuff. and can even make a cantrip focused attacker (shocking grasp + all the lightening modifiers, or ray of frost + the ice staff, more so on a sorcerer adding charisma to their chosen elements cantrip) as very strong and solid builds. your own example here showed a 50% eldritch blast becoming a 70% eldritch blast, which is a +4 to it's attack roll or 20% extra accuracy. Which in this scenario is a 40% increase, nothing small and just as powerful as you think it is baseline, especially for casters with attack rolls. That's if they all roll 1/4. The fact that each of those dice is rolled separately. your looking at closer to a so a 20-80 range would be 50% statistical increase on average. Meaning you almost need to fumble to miss an eldritch blast with that cast on you. What's even better, is you can unequip the staff after a prebuff to have something like phalar aluve on for the actual fight. AND if your concentration breaks? or you want to use say spirit guardians? you still keep the full Mystra's blessing, so 1d4 attack/saving throws (as if you never dropped concentration to begin with), and the 2d4 spell specific. So even losing concentration or swapping concentrations. you keep a 15-60% range of rolls for attack increase on spells. it's just as bonkers as you think it is, more so in the early game and if you don't give your sorlock the risky ring. they rarely miss with it up and even a couple pieces of gear for themselves. idk, doubling your chances of landing an eldrich blast/shocking grasp/ray of frost . . is stronger than I thought it was initially. and still has a 25% average increase for physical users on top. . . that's enough to break the balance of the game. where it wants you closer to a 70% chance to hit most things. and with how stacked you can make either of those 3 cantrips with their own focused builds. it's kind of nutty. edit: some testing with darkness. and you still can't make ranged attacks into it. even with normal darkvision, you need magical dark vision. Even standing just outside and wyll right inside I cannot attack him. even if the accuracy on the tooltip says 40%, it won't actually let me make the attack if i can't walk up to melee range of him to use my ranged weapon. good if you want to keep wyll safe from casters. can't even cast circle spells to anything but the edge of the darkness. so unless it's only fixed in honor mode and still behaves with dark vision on normal/tactician then idk.

I'm in a complaining mood, too. Love the game, but it infuriates me that the tooltips are not consistent with numbers. Sometimes they show 1-10 sometimes and other times it's 1d10. What's the difference? Is there one? Is it actually just inconsistent or is one not affected by kermamic dice and one is? I can't handle this!

In fog closed or darkny, whole you're not technically "hiding", you are considered hidden vs enemies without dark vision. In magical darkness you're indeed hidden unless someone has say "devils sight".

Did you see the video about Rat Bat? It adds 1d8 piercing, but its not in the tool tip.

tiger heart swipe attack is amazing. I forgot to read the halving damage and just saw number pretty much as high as with normal attack. It's spammable to it was absolutely amazing in crowded fights.

Here is a detailed breakdown of how Confusion (and all crowd control spells) works: All targeted enemies will succeed on their saving throws even though your save DC is 20. Should one of them somehow fail this initial save (I have heard rumors of this occurring but never witnessed it myself), the enemy then immediately gets to make the save again on the start of their turn, ending the effect. In theory, should you be the luckiest person in the universe, it is conceptually possible that they will fail both of these saving throws. If this is the case, the enemy then proceeds to act normally anyways because screw you. Note that, on Tactician and Honor difficulties, enemies who fail this saving throw twice (a one in a trillion chance), then simply decide to succeed on it instead. As such, the most accurate tooltip for the Confusion spell would read: "Expend a 4th level spell slot to skip your action this turn."

Doesn't Dread ambusher need the first attack to hit in order to gain the free attack with bonus 1d8 damage? that's how it usually works. On a miss you lose the attack so getting bless or something to increase the chance of hitting really helps out.

i was so mad that i skipped out on using Destructive Wave for almost the whole run. only worked out how it works when i cast it on an ally by accident

For arcane blessing, you didnt test saving throws as well. Try that out. But theres some funky wording there, key words being additional, weapon attack and attack rolls. Im also curious : Maybe the additional 1d4 weapon attack somehow overwrites the origunal 1d4 attack roll. It would be a super simple bug in the code messing with priority. I bet this is whats happening, but i couldnt know for sure unless we could know if it does give 2d4 to saving throws

I hope Larian sees this video and fixes it in a future patch. Great compilation!

I believe the problem with the Staff of Arcane Blessing isn't related to the staff and its description itself The spell Bless, as well as tons of other spells, was constructed in such a way that it's impossible to stack them, meaning you can't Bless someone, heal them with The Whispering Promise equipped, and enjoy a double blessing That's why the fact that the staff creates two different blessings is extremely important. The normal blessing acts as a base that has its effects overwritten by the Mystra's Blessing, and it serves two purposes. First of all, it's to prevent one of the other party members from applying a basic Bless on top of Mystra's Blessing, which would result in +2d4 to ARs and STs and +3d4 to spell ARs, which would have been too much. On the other hand, it prevents Mystra's Blessing from being overwritten itself, so if someone else blesses you again, it updates the remaining time of the normal blessing, but doesn't remove the +2d4 spell ARs effect Even though the wording is still unquestionably poor, and it should be said that it doesn't add to the blessing, but changes its effects, it has to be executed in this roundabout way to work properly and prevent exploits And they can't make the effect of the normal blessing invisible in the effects tab because of the ability to reapply the basic blessing anyway, and then it would be weird for it to appear out of nowhere when Mystra's Blessing ran out, which is a whole other rabbit hole

Another irritating/confusing tooltip is goading attack against the PC, had it happen to my traction mode, I didn't have disadvantage on my attacks, I couldn't control my characters if they failed the save against the attack. I don't know if this has been covered by you or not. But it annoyed the ever-loving life out of me. Edit: Found more info on it, but its further down a chain of conditions.

The confusion one....literally every spell that doesn't affect allies but affects everyone else says it affects "Creatures". The game is just saving you time because the actual spell in the pen and paper game allow you to not affect allies, but instead of making you click on people and just avoid your allies, it just doesn't affect your allies and affects everyone in the spell radius.

Surprised that the enemy version of Goaded attack wasn't here. it just completely taking control of your character makes no sense what so ever

So if im a sorcerer using Counterspell with my 8 Intelligence I'll get a -1 to the check even with 20 Charisma....